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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:6 - 30:6
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the posts - that is, runners, or royal messengers, who were taken from the king’s bodyguard (2Ch 23:1, 2Ch 23:2). Each, well mounted, had a certain number of miles to traverse. Having performed his course, he was relieved by another, who had to scour an equal extent of ground; so that, as the government messengers were dispatched in all directions, public edicts were speedily diffused throughout the country. The proclamation of Hezekiah was followed by a verbal address from himself, piously urging the duty, and setting forth the advantages, of a return to the pure faith and institutions which God had delivered to their ancestors through Moses.
the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria - This implies that several expeditions against Israel had already been made by Assyrian invaders - by Pul (2Ki 15:19), but none of the people were then removed; at a later period by Tiglath-pileser, when it appears that numbers among the tribes east of Jordan (1Ch 5:26), and afterwards in the northern parts of Israel (2Ki 15:20), were carried into foreign exile. The invasion of Shalmaneser cannot be alluded to, as it did not take place till the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign (2Ki 17:6; 2Ki 18:9-12).